Confessions of a Not-So-Dangerous Mind*

Among the strangest years in franchise history. Judge missed 2/3 of the season, Stanton barely played, Rodon missed 40% of the season, Fried missed more than a third, Cole was out just under 8 weeks total, Chisholm, Volpe at SS, Wells, Grisham, and McMahon were awful pretty much all season... and the team *still* won 93 games in a BRUTAL A.L. East. That's one game more than the legendary World Series winning '96 squad. Is the organization in tatters, despite the 93 wins? They haven't won a World Series since 2009. Do they need to make Judge a permanent DH going forward, to try and keep him healthy? 

The much-heralded collaboration between Alejandro Inarrito and Tom Cruise is vastly underperforming at the boxoffice and has met with insanely polarized reactions from critics. Is this the sort of film which landed at the wrong time, but will find a massive audience at a later date?

The New York Yankees swept "historical rival" Boston in this year's Wild Card series to move on to the ALDS. Join me for my thoughts on the team, the season, and a look at Cam Schlittler's incredible (probable) Cy Young Award season.

Kane Parsons' fascinating, genre-bending boxoffice smash Backrooms hit HBO Max last weekend. Join me for a deep(ish) exploration of the movie and whether or not it's even accurate to refer to it as a "horror movie."

Daniel Roher's terrific new film Tuner stars Leo Woodall as a young musical prodigy who works as a piano tuner... and whose hyper-hyper sensitive hearing may ebable him to crack safes...

Finally saw Edgar Wright's 2025 "more faithful adaptation" of Stephen King's dystopian sci-fi novel The Running Man. How does it compare to the 1987 version starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, which I absolutely adore?

New series! Strap in for a history-based episode as I recall and recount the Julia Roberts films I've seen in theaters, then the Clint Eastwood films I've seen in theaters. I'll revisit this concept in an upcoming episode in which I'll discuss Meryl Streep and either Pacino or DeNiro.

Michael Keaton's fantastic turn as McDonald's CEO Ray Kroc in 2016's The Founder ranks with his best work, showing every side of the complicated, heel-ish entrepreneur.

Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window opened in theaters September 1, 1954. 72 years on, it stands as one of the greatest movies ever made.

21 y.o. Moses Itauma's first professional defeat came at the hands of rugged veteran Filip Hrgovic in a fight the rising star was dominating... until he wasn't.